Malini Kulkarni

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Angel Investor at Independent · Consumer · brands, marketplaces

Independent
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Telugu
Investing
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Overview

30 years around startups; now investing in consumer. Led or co-led 33 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later. Previously an operator for 10 years before investing. Before that: Zomato and Zerodha. Most at home with brands and venture capital. Plant-based cook and baker.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in consumer
  • Second opinions on brands decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
venture capitalbrandsmarketplaces
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $50k cheques into pre-seed consumer in Southeast Asia

Cheque size
$50k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Consumer, B2B SaaS
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

Hyderabad, Indiamarketplacesventure capitalbrands
Open

Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Independent · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Sit on 5 boards.
    • Led or co-led 35 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Business Analyst
    Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
    Zomato · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 5.
    • Wrote the marketplaces service that now handles 61 million requests a day.
  3. Business Analyst
    Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
    Zerodha · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 522ms to 167ms.
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 28 a week to 1.
  4. Consultant
    May 2014 - Dec 2017
    Meesho · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 26 deals.
  5. Associate Partner
    May 2012 - Jan 2014
    Infosys · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 22 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 72 services to marketplaces.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    1995 - 1997
  2. St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
    B.A., Economics
    1991 - 1995

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